Roofing material



Feb. 23 1926.

B; c. KRIDLER ROOFING MATERIAL Filed August 21 1924 INVENTOR Biff/WE C fFQ/DL 72 ""ATToRmaY nit-aria EERNIE C. KRIDLER, OF CHICAGO. ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CAMPBELL "WIRE SPE- CIALTY WORKS, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, A CORPORATION 01 INDIANA.

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hpplication filed August 21, 1924. Serial No. 733,279.

lle it known that 1', BERNIE C. Knnnrrzn, a citizen of the l'nited States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cool: and State 'of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rooting Material of which the following is a specification.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in View are: to avoid the curling or upt'nrning of the free edge of shingles or similar members constructed from flexible materialyto facilitate the op-' eration of covering a root; to economizeon the material mz-mufactnred from sheets of standard size; and to avoid the necessity of locating proper points of disposition o t' the fasteners for said sh ngles.

Figure l is an isometric perspective view of a portion of a rooflthe same being shown as in the act of receivinga covering, constructed and arranged in accin'dance \\'it h the present invention,

Figure a. cross section of the same on enlarged scale, the. section being taken as on the line 22 in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a section'ot 'a fragment. of the roof on an increased scale, the section being taken as on the line 3-3 in Figure 1.

Figure dis a top side View of a sheet of roofing material, one section being severed from the body of the material and the remainder of the material being marked .for severance.

Description.

As seen best in Figure 4 of the drawings, the shingle member constructed in accordance'with-the present invention, consists of a roofing section 9 which is severed from the body of a sheet of rooting material indicated by i ieral 10. The lines of severance shown tr the dotted lines 11 in said figure writings are stepped iTf'the manner- .he indentation or horizontal lines a equal to one half the exposed Width in shingles oi: the usual construction.

Zither sinnlltaneoos with the severing of section 9 or subsequent thereto, each sction is provided with a-series of perfor: tions l3 n'orided particularly to receive the shankl4; of a clip 15. The clip 15 has a hook-end 16 which in practice stands upright. or perpendicnlar to the plancof the angles in one side edge,

roof, until a shingle section is laid against it, It then m'ertxnrned in the manner disclosed in Figure 3 ot. the dravings to thereafter hold the shingle section firmly in posi.* tion.

As seenbest in Figure 1, the hookcnds 16 rest at the inner corner of the lines of severance of the various shingle sections. The sections 9 are arranged in simulation of a n'iultiplicit of shingles, and the sections cover a. roof space equal to a number of shingles, though the sections are placed in position on, the root with almost the celerit} and rapidity that the single shingle of usual construction is placed.

As will he seen in Figure l of the drawingis. the exposed ends or edges formed by the severance ure held firmly in position by the clips it which are. disposed at every one ol the inner angles ol the lineofseverance. Also it; will he observed that'the exposed portions of each section presents a triangular surface to the weather which otters the greatest; resistance to any effort on the part of the wind to upturn the said exposed porlions.

To more nearly imitate the appearance of the usual shingle, the sections 9 have imprinted therein preferably by scoring, a series of lines t7 which are extensions of the horizontal edges 12. The lines 17 register with the edges 12 of the nether-posed and superposed sections and carry the appearance in thc'coinpleted root of full exposed square shingle ends.

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ity of rooting sections, each of said sections having its iop and bottom edges disposed in parallel relation and havingits opposite side edges cut in step formation formingv inner said sections having perlorations.for receiving fastening memhers disposed adjacent; the inner angles of the esposed edges of roofing seetions to be side edges out in stepped relation with one 10 superimposed thereon, and fastening memof said side edges having inner angles and hers securing each. of said sections in each serving as g fweather edge for thesections, of the inner angles in the weather side edges and fastenibfi members passed through each 5 thereof. @of said sections and extending over the 3. lioofing'gmaterial comprising a plumb, weather edge of supel imposed sections at 15 it of superimposed roofing sections each-of each of the innerangles formed therein. which is formed with straight arall'el top a m d bottom edges. said seotionsiiavingtheir I 7 BERNIE C. KRIDLER, 

